chloro, bromo and methoxy at C‐3 on fluorobenzenes for their palladium‐catalyseddirect C‐2arylation has been explored. With electron‐withdrawing substituents, the reaction proceeds nicely using 2–4 mol% of an air‐stable palladium complex and potassium pivalate/dimethylacetamide (PivOK/DMA) as catalytic system; and in general, a very regioselective arylation at C‐2 was observed. Moreover, a variety of
1′‐biphenyl]‐4‐ols were obtained from pentafluorobenzene at 150 °C due to a formal regioselective hydroxylation, whereas at lower temperatures the expected pentafluorobiphenyls were obtained. However, no C−F bondcleavage was observed with the other polyfluorobenzene derivatives. These arylation reactions were carried out with only 1 mol % Pd/C as the catalyst and KOAc as an inexpensive base. Therefore,